Sanitary tissue container



March 28, 1944.

T. WENSEL, JR

SANITARY TISSUE CONTAINER Filed Apri1 9, 1940 INVENTOR JMW BY M%' ATTORNEY Patented Mar. 28, 1944 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE SANITARY TISSUE CONTAINER Theodor Wensel, In, Tonawanda, N. Y. Application April 9, 1940, Serial No. 328,738 2 Claims. (01. zoo-s1) This invention relates generally to a holder or container for sanitary tissues but more particularly to a holder from which clean tissues may be dispensed for use and into which they may be disposed .or received after use.

It has for one of its objects to provide a selfcontained device of this character which is so designed as to be readily carried on ones person, and whereby the tissues can be conveniently dispensed for use as desired and as easily disposed of in a sanitary manner after use.

Another (ibject of the invention is to provide a simple, compact and inexpensive dual-purpose tissue holder adapted for convenient use while contained in ones pocket or purse in a facile, non-awkward and non-embarrassing manner.

Other features of the invention reside in the construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tissue holder showing the same in position for use in ones pocket. Figure 2 is an enlarged transverse vertical section thereof. Figure 3 is a cross section of the same.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

In the preferred embodiment of the invention shown in the drawing, my combination dispensing and disposing device for sanitary tissues is more particularly designed for portable use or for carrying on ones person, as for example, in ones pocket or in ones purse, and is so designed that the tissues may be readily dispensed from and easily disposed of by depositing them after use into the device in a facile and non-embarrassing manner. To this end it consists of a holder or packet of any appropriate shape or design to readily fit into ones pocket or purse and includes a main, comparatively rigid compartment it of substantially rectangular box-like form for con taining a supply of clean tissues Ii, and an auxiliary expansible compartment l2 disposed in cooperative relation with the clean tissue compartment for receiving the tissues after use. It is preferable that the tissues are stacked in any well-known interjoined or interfolded manner whereby after a tissue is.removed from the compartment l0, an end of the next adjoining tissue insuch compartment will be exposed or conveniently accessible for removal. At its upper end this clean tissue compartment is normally closed by a scored sealing flap l3 or the like to protect its contents before the device is put into use, and

when the container is to be used this flap is 'disconnected in an obvious manner to provide a resulting dispensing opening I for the ready removal of the clean tissues as they are desired for use. As shown in Figure 2, this closure flap I 3 has been removed to provide the dispensing opening which faces generally upwardly and one of the tissues is shown with its end exposed for ready removal from the packet. By this construction, it will be noted from Figure 1, that the tissues are readily accessible for dispensing by the user merely inserting his hand in the structed with folds or plaits shown at l5 to permit the same to readily expand as required, while its upper end is left open, as indicated at It, to provide for the ready insertion of a tissue, after use, into this compartment. By preference, the upper end of the disposal compartment terminates below the dispensing opening of the companion compartment Ill so that there is no inter-' ference between the dispensing and disposing operations as performed by the user, and like the dispensing act, the disposal of a used tissue into the compartment l2 can be accomplished in-an easy, convenient and natural manner and without embarrassment to the user.

While this dual-purpose packet for sanitary tissues may be made of any appropriate material,

whether opaque or transparent, it is desirable that the disposal compartment I! be made of or lined with a moisture-proof material so that any moisture present in the used or soiled tissue will not permeate into the clean tissue compartment it. Inthis connection, while the latter or main portion of the device may be made of cardboard orlike material, its front or dividing wall between the companion compartments, as well as its top wall, may be made of a-transparent material, such as Cellophane, whereby the condition of its contents can be readily observed.

I claim as my invention:

1. A combination dispensing and disposing device for sanitary tissues, comprising a packet adapted to be carried in and for use from ones pocket and having a comparatively rigid, boxlike compartment for clean tissues arranged in a predetermined fashion for individually dispensing them for use as desired, said compartment having a dispensing opening adjacent its upper end through which an individual tissue is exposed for withdrawal by the user, and an expansible compartment for receiving used tissues disposed alongside and in substantially parallel relation with the companion compartment and including expansible side walls, said receiving compartment being open at its upper end in a plane adjoining that of the dispensing compartmentopening.

2. A combination dispensing and disposing device ior sanitary tissues, comprising a packet adapted to be carried in and for use from one: pocketand having a comparatively rigid, boxlike compartment for clean tissues arranged in a predetermined fashion for individually dispensing them for use as desired, said compartment having an upwardly-facing dispensing opening at its upper end through which an individual tissue is exposed for withdrawal by the user, and an expansible compartment for receiving used tissues disposed alongside and in substantially parallel relation with the companion compartment and including expansible side walls, said receiving compartment being open at its upper end and terminating thereat below the plane of the dispensing compartment opening.

THEODOR WENSEL, JR. 

